| “Sew-in”
in Athens to highlight problems faced by sportswear workers
“The Play Fair at the Olympics campaign today
staged an action in Athens on the eve of the opening of the Olympic
games in solidarity with sportswear workers worldwide. Twenty women
gathered on an Athens rooftop to mark a silent protest staged by
the Play Fair at the Olympics campaign. Play Fair held a “sew-in”,
featuring “faceless” activists, operating sewing machines
against the backdrop of the Acropolis. The action was staged in
order to highlight the appalling working conditions experienced
by hundreds of thousands of workers in the sportswear industry….”
Bericht
über die Aktion der Play Fair-Kampagne in ICFTU ONLINE vom
10.8.2004 
Migrant Workers Could End Up Losers
”A group of non-white labourers is busy planting
shrubs by the side of the main Olympics stadium in Athens. The Greek
contractor overseeing them is a man in a hurry. One group of labourers
is taking the little shrubs and sticking them in. Another is laying
a network of black pipes to keep them watered under the burning
August sun. Within hours the land to the side of a road bridge has
been 'landscaped', and yet another stretch of land has become 'green'.
The soil does not look like it can host the plants very long. But
the first aim is to keep them that way until Aug. 29 when the Olympics
end (after starting Aug. 13). A conversation with one of the workers
who appeared to be a Pakistani turned out to be very brief. "It
is very hot and it's a lot of work but I'm not complaining,"
he told IPS. "I am used to heat, so that is okay. But I have
not stopped working. Hardly time to sleep, and the contractor brings
us back again."…” Artikel
von Sanjay Suri in IPS-News vom 9.8.04
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Play Fair bei Olympia – Arbeitsbedingungen in der Sportbekleidungsindustrie. 
